Actor Priyadarshi Pilikonda, who draws everyone’s eyeballs with “Pelli Choopulu” movie with his comedy timing. He will be playing the role of superstar Mahesh Babu’s friend in an upcoming, yet-untitled Telugu-Tamil bilingual project.

It is learned that Murugadoss wanted to cast a relatively new comedian for a brief role in the film and Priyadarshi’s crowd pleasing act in Pelli Choopulu became the clincher. He has bagged a biggie in the form acting with Mahesh Babu for next project. Also, he is working for Rana’s next project Ghazi

Going into details, Priyadarshi says he will be starstruck working alongside the latter and rubbing shoulders with director A.R. Murugadoss and cinematographer Santosh Sivan. The regular shooting of this untitled film is progressing at a brisk pace in Hyderabad and the makers are planning to release the film for Summer next year.

“It’s a fanboy moment, you know, to be working alongside Mahesh, Murugadoss sir and Santosh Sivan sir. I am going to be starstruck, but at the same time, I look forward to learning from them,” Priyadarshi, who will join the sets of the film here on Wednesday shared in an interview.

“It was wonderful meeting Mahesh and Murugadoss sir. I’m also excited to work with actor R.J. Balaji because we play the same roles. While I play Mahesh’s friend in the Telugu version, he will play the same role in the Tamil version,” he said.

“Mahesh told me he loved the film, describing it as a breath of fresh air. Even Rakul Preet Singh, who plays the lead role in this project, said she thoroughly enjoyed the film,” he added.

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